“He, the Eternal King, recapitulates everything in himself” (Adversus haereses, III, 21,9) By: Jay Dyer For a long time I assumed that the Eastern notions of the eschaton sounded universalist and...

Critical Ruminations By: Jay Being a big fan of Eco, I like Eco’s critique of being. Not generic being, but the convertibility of being in Aquinas. I like being, too....

By: Jay Dyer If you’ve read much in terms of Catholic theology and Church History, it’s not too long before you come into contact with various theories about what has...

By: Jay Dyer Protestants are generally clueless when it comes to the canon of Scripture. Even the best of them act as if the Bible dropped out of heaven into...

By: Jay Dyer A Calvinist has asked: how can Christ assume a fallen nature and not be sinful?   In Calvinism, the tendency is to say that sin is actually in...

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” –St. John’s Gospel, 1:14 “Why do you incessantly call Mary ‘Theotokos’?” –Julian the Apostate, (Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, Vol. I, pg....

By: Jay Dyer A common thread in non-Christian religions and worldviews is that of dualism. In fact, nature itself does exhibit all forms of dualities, such as night and day,...

By: Jay Dyer Granted, this is vintage Alpha Omega Ministries, and maybe James White has changed his position since then, and if so, I will gladly retract this post. However,...

By: Nick I would hope that anyone reading the title of this post would consider the suggested question nothing short of blasphemy. For those who don’t know, there are Christians...

By: Jay Dyer Many are confused about the meaning and terminology of the debates that have been occurring lately in regards to Calvinism, the Trinity, Nature, Person, etc. So, an...

  St. Athanasius Uses theosis, the Theotokos, the Real Presence and the Single Subject Argument to Refute the Same Errors the Calvinists Preach: [Prior to the battle of St. Cyril of...

“The soul’s salvation is the consummation of faith. This consummation is the revelation of what has been believed. Revelation is the inexpressible interpénétration (τιεριχώρησις) of the believer with (or toward,...

And Why I Wouldn’t Go Back Many practical and observational reasons could also be given, but this will focus on the central doctrinal errors I see. By: Jay Dyer I...

By: Jay Dyer “…The Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and…we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness.” -St. Gregory the Theologian St. Gregory of Nazianzus is...

By: Jay Dyer No one should be afraid to read someone even the West believes to be a Doctor of the Church. Some Latins, however, actually discourage people from reading...

By: Jay Dyer Still trudging through the voluminous Books Against Eunomius by St. Gregory of Nyssa, there is a literally a treasure trove of lucid argumentation and points that can be...

By: Jay Dyer I’m posting this because the St. Maximus section is often referred to (and it’s all St. Maximus anyway). The western corollary to the Logos/logoi is “divine exemplarism.” Both are rooted in...

By: Jay Dyer As is evident in conversations with both unenlightened Catholics and Calvinists (but especially Calvinists), the starting point of theology – the ordo theologiae is radically different. The West...

By: Jay Dyer Basically, the argument is that in the reformed view of imputation, the “righteousness” Christ earns via His keeping of the law is *not a righteousness based on...

N. writes: No offense Jay, but you are operating on multiple, severely flawed groundworks. For example: 1) Thomas never taught God was like a blob of jello such that ‘Father...